Eighty Years on: further memoirs

Eighty Years on: further memoirs

Nicholas Tarling's second volume of memoirs, beginning with the 1980s and early 1990s. Tarling was involved in the struggle with the governemnt and its agencies over university 'reforms', with the attempt to keep the Mercury Theatre afloat, and with the founding of what became New Zealand Opera.

Tarling was among the top brass at the University of Auckland and continued to teach, research and write.